Trojitá 0.3 released

It's my pleasure to announce that version v0.3 of Trojitá, a fast and lightweight IMAP e-mail client based on the Qt library, is now available. For more details of what Trojitá is and who should use it, please see below.

It's a pure Qt4 application with no additional dependencies; it builds in two-and-half minutes on a five-year-old laptop

Robust IMAP core implemented using Qt's Model-View framework

Standards compliance is a design goal

On-demand message list and body part loading ("lazy loading")

Offline IMAP support

Support for bandwidth-saving mode aimed at mobile users with expensive connection

IMAP over SSH -- instead of going over an SSL socket, the server could be accessed via SSH

Safe and robust dealing with HTML mail

Please note that the "message sending" and "message composing" features of Trojitá are a bit lagging at this point and therefore it is not recommended to use Trojitá for these tasks apart from testing.

Certain features of Trojitá depend on the IMAP server's functionality. Trojitá is written from the bottom-up as an IMAP client and is designed around its feature set. For example, threaded message viewing (ie. "conversations") is supported only if the server implements an appropriate extension for now.

Trojitá is under heavy development, features are added on almost daily basis and the codebase is rapidly maturing. Certain useful features are still missing, there is no support for searching, for example. We have tickets opened for these, so please Cc yourself at the task tracker if you would like to follow the progress here.

Finally, as with any software, Trojitá has some bugs which are already known and reported in the issue tracker and some which are still waiting for discovery. That said, it is safe to use to for reading mail. I've been doing that for several years on a production account, and I have never lost a mail with Trojitá. Please do not send e-mails with current version, though, as it is known to produce non-standard messages in certain circumstances.

Please use this Redmine portal to report issues with Trojitá. If you do not want to be bothered by a registration, please at least send bug reports via e-mail or report them at the #trojita IRC channel on Freenode.

A huge thank you goes to two new contributors who have submitted patches to make Trojitá better. It's my please to introduce Shanti Bouchez who is responsible for the new feature of tagging messages (and fixed STARTTLS for SMTP subscription in the process, among other things). The second contributor is Thomas Gahr who added e-mail auto-completion and fixed bugs.

Since its inception in 2006, many other people have contributed to Trojitá as well. I'd like to mention patches from Benson Tsai, John Rogelstad, Andrew Brouwers, Gil Moskowitz, Jiří Helebrant, Jun Yang, Justin J, and Tomáš Kouba, who have all sent patches in. Finally, another huge thank you goes to anyone who has reported bugs or helped make Trojitá better in any way.